Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
